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Updated on Mar 6, 2024

We compared Azure Container Registry and Amazon ECR based on our user's reviews in several parameters.

In summary, based on user reviews, Azure Container Registry is praised for its seamless integration with other Azure services, robust security measures, efficient storage management, and reliable performance. On the other hand, Amazon ECR users value its integration with AWS services, excellent support, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Azure Container Registry users suggest improvements in performance and reliability, user interface, and documentation, while Amazon ECR users want a more user-friendly interface, better documentation, and faster image processes.

Features: Users value Azure Container Registry for easy integration with Azure services, seamless scaling, strong security measures, efficient storage management, and reliable performance. On the other hand, Amazon ECR users appreciate seamless integration with AWS services, robust security and access control, reliable and scalable infrastructure, easy image management and deployment, and excellent support and documentation.

Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Azure Container Registry was considered reasonable and provided good value for money, with a convenient and simple process. Users found the licensing to be flexible. On the other hand, Amazon ECR is praised for its minimal setup cost, easy handling, and straightforward licensing process., Azure Container Registry has been praised for its cost-effective and efficient workflow, while Amazon ECR has helped users improve operational efficiency and save on infrastructure costs through seamless integration.

Room for Improvement: Azure Container Registry could improve its performance, reliability, user interface, and documentation. Users suggest adding advanced features and better integrations. Amazon ECR could enhance its user-friendly interface, documentation, tutorials, and image uploading and updating processes.

Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Azure Container Registry suggest that the duration for establishing the new tech solution can vary, ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, to just a week for both. In comparison, the user feedback for Amazon ECR also varies, with different users providing their experiences and views on the matter. Careful analysis of the reviews is crucial to understand the context in which terms like deployment, setup, and implementation are used, and to consider multiple timeframes mentioned by users for an accurate understanding of their experiences., Azure Container Registry's customer service is highly appreciated for its helpfulness, responsiveness, and prompt issue resolution. On the other hand, Amazon ECR's customer service is regarded as professional, efficient, and ensuring a positive user experience.

The summary above is based on 19 interviews we conducted recently with Azure Container Registry and Amazon ECR users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon ECR vs. Azure Container Registry Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is its ease of use and the centralized management console.""The solution is very stable.""The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is how it organizes the code and the infrastructure.""In the case of Amazon ECR, there are various valuable features we can see. Currently, there are image-scanning capabilities that we use.""What I like most about Amazon ECR is that it's swift.""The most tool's valuable feature is image scanning.""One feature of Amazon ECR that I find particularly useful is its web interface, which makes management easy. The ability to manage and support token image updates is crucial for us. Moreover, utilizing load balancers via AWS features allows us to manage all traffic."

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"One of the benefits of this solution is that it's private and secure.""Feature-wise, the security model and access controls are pretty straightforward and valuable""Specific tokens can be used to set folder structure or restrict things like read or write access.""We like the fact that this is a secure solution, that employs a token-based system, which can be used to manage all the applications under this product.""Provides secure duplication and the option for service webhooks.""It's great for storing images on containers.""The most valuable feature is that it's easy to download, install and manage.""What I like best about Azure Container Registry is that it's fast. It also has 24 x 7 reliability. I didn't face any downtime issues using Azure Container Registry. I also like how secure the solution is, especially as it's from Microsoft."

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Cons
"One area for improvement in Amazon ECR is its complexity. It's pretty complex for newbies, particularly learning about private repositories, including how to access Amazon ECR through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).""Amazon ECR should improve the integration with Amazon CloudWatch. For example, allowing us to monitor the queues better. Additionally, some of the features could be made more accessible.""Improving the documentation for easy understanding will help bring in more clients to use Amazon ECR.""Amazon ECR needs to improve its downtime.""Its support for system architecture needs improvement.""Amazon ECR's manipulation capability of tags needs to be improved.""It would be great if they could also provide a reference to fix the errors or vulnerabilities in the images rather than just notifying us about them."

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"It's not an open source, and we pay per hour to Microsoft Azure.""Lacks the option of having access keys stored in a master key vault.""We have found that it is sometimes difficult to pull images from the host application.""The deployment is an area that needs improvement, as it can take some time to deploy.""They can improve their scalability.""The solution has no areas that need improvement.""The setup for Azure Container Registry was a bit complex. Still, the main problem was that whenever a new image was generated, that new Docker image needed to be updated in Azure Container Registry.""The accessibility of Azure Container Registry also has room for improvement because the solution is not always accessible 24 x 7. I experienced this three times when the service wasn't responding, so I could not push or pull images, and I had to decommission Azure Container Registry and redeploy it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "My company currently has Amazon ECR under the pay-as-you-go model. The tool is more affordable than Azure Container Registry, and it's worth the money."
  • "The solution's price is reasonable compared to its competitors"
  • "Amazon ECR does not have a high cost."
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  • "Azure is a bit expensive."
  • "Azure Container Registry, has no cost, but you pay for storage service."
  • "I have no information on how much Azure Container Registry costs. I know it's the only solution my institution can use, so the cost was approved."
  • "The Premium version includes some enhancements but is still quite okay with regard to pricing."
  • "When using Azure Container Registry, it was $1.5 or $1.6 per day, but I'm unsure how much it costs today."
  • "The product is competitively priced."
  • "I would rate the pricing four out of ten."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is how it organizes the code and the infrastructure.
    Top Answer:A lot of documentation is very beneficial for command-line tools like Amazon ECR. Improving the documentation for easy understanding will help bring in more clients to use Amazon ECR.
    Top Answer:Azure Container Registry is an easy-to-install, easy-to-configure, and easy-to-deploy solution.
    Top Answer:We have a one-year or two-year contract. We can extend it to a ten-year contract because it is a stable application. We have our images ready, with which we want to focus on the customer. We are using… more »
    Top Answer:The solution could provide more integration.
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Elastic Container Registry
    Microsoft Azure Container Registry
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    Overview

    Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Amazon ECR is integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), simplifying your development to production workflow.

    Azure Container Registry allows you to build, store, and manage container images and artifacts in a private registry for all types of container deployments. Use Azure container registries with your existing container development and deployment pipelines. Use Azure Container Registry Tasks to build container images in Azure on-demand, or automate builds triggered by source code updates, updates to a container's base image, or timers.

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    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon ECR vs. Azure Container Registry
    March 2024
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    Amazon ECR is ranked 1st in Container Registry with 7 reviews while Azure Container Registry is ranked 3rd in Container Registry with 16 reviews. Amazon ECR is rated 9.6, while Azure Container Registry is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon ECR writes "Scalable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Container Registry writes "Configurations are quite simple with tokens that set folder structure or access levels". Amazon ECR is most compared with JFrog Container Registry, Harbor, Google Container Registry, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and DigitalOcean Container Registry, whereas Azure Container Registry is most compared with Harbor, JFrog Container Registry, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Red Hat Quay. See our Amazon ECR vs. Azure Container Registry report.

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